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translator
  1. A person who translates text, film, or other material into a different natural language.
  2. (by extension) One that makes a new version of a source material in a different language or format.
  3. (proscribed) A language interpreter.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “A translator is always on high demand in intelligence agencies to decipher confidential communications.”
      “From Spain he brought a translator who created a Latin summary of Aristotle's biological and zoological works.”
      “Although he is far better known for his novels, Norman continues to work as a translator from Algonquin and Cree.”
translation
  1. (uncountable) The act or (countable) an act of translating, in its various senses:
    1. The conversion of text from one language to another.
    2. (translation studies) The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language).
    3. The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
    4. (physics) A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
    5. (mathematics) A relation between two mathematical figures such as a straight line where the coordinates of each point in one figure is a constant added to the coordinates of a corresponding point in the other figure.
    6. (genetics) The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.
    7. (physics) A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.
    8. The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
  2. (countable) The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The literal English translation is simply ungrammatical, and most readers would find it incoherent.”
      “The translation of the article clarified the author's intent by rewording certain phrases and adding context.”
      “French Egyptologist Jean Champollion did much of the work in the translation of Hieroglyphics.”
translative
  1. the translative case
  2. a word in the translative case
translatology
  1. The study of the theory and practice of translating and interpreting, especially in an academic context, combining elements of social science and the humanities. Also known as translation studies or traductology.
  2. Synonyms:
translatese
  1. (translation studies) Awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation, for example due to overly literal translation of idioms or syntax.
  2. Synonyms:
translatrix
  1. A woman, girl, or other female who translates; a specifically female translator.
translationese
  1. (translation studies) Awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation, such as due to overly literal translation of idioms or syntax.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The illusion of easy communication disintegrates, the curse of Babel reasserts itself, English collapses into translationese.”
translatability
  1. The quality or property of being translatable; ability to be translated.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He is the only Italian poet from the era to have achieved a considerable translatability and literary reputation abroad.”
      “Either way, such failures of easy translatability are far too localized to encourage talk of different conceptual schemes.”
      “These severe restrictions on the translatability of the expressible, on the presentable and the representable, are suggestive of the rigours of Beckett's work.”
translatableness
translatorese
  1. (pejorative) Stilted or unidiomatic language produced by automated translation.
  2. Synonyms:
translatome
  1. (genetics) The totality of proteins formed by translation of mRNA
translate
  1. (analysis, in Euclidean spaces) A set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.
translatorship
  1. The role or office of a translator.
translatioun
  1. Obsolete form of translation.
translatour
  1. Obsolete form of translator.
translatress
  1. (rare) A woman who translates.
translatorships
  1. plural of translatorship
translatiouns
  1. plural of translatioun
translatresses
  1. plural of translatress
translatomes
  1. plural of translatome
translatours
  1. plural of translatour
translations
  1. plural of translation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The circumstantial evidence all attests to these being excellent translations.”
      “The official language to be used at the courts will be Khmer, with English, French and Russian translations, the draft bill said.”
      “The most common are translations from Luganda to English and translations from English to Luganda.”
translatives
  1. plural of translative
translatrices
  1. plural of translatrix
translators
  1. plural of translator
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “You have Americans, working in an alien culture, travelling with armed men and using translators.”
      “So, translators have been working on books translated into English, and then retranslating them into Swedish.”
      “Homer haunts the imaginations of countless poets, translators and adapters in English.”
translates
  1. plural of translate
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